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GEOG 4731

Urban Geography

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Fall 2024

Topics

  • Introduction Hiller Introduction
  • Early History of Cities Hiller Chp 1 Commented [RH1]
  • Cities 1850-1940 Chp
  • Industrial cities
  • Universal Properties of Cities Moos
  • Post Industrial City II
  • Hiller Chp
  • Millennials
  • The city after
  • Bain Chp
  • Urban Systems
  • Canada Today
  • The Environment
  • Climate Change Bain Chp
  • Global Cities--Test Return Short Chp
  • Global Cities II Short Chp
  • Development in Developed World Rowntree Chp 3, 8 (parts)
  • Nov7 Development in Developing World Rowntree Chp
  • Rowntree Chp
  • Nov12 Development in Developing World II

Readings

  • Required: Hiller, Harry H Urban Canada 3rd edition. Optional: Moos, Marcus Canadian Cities in Transition (students who took the third-year urban courses may have this book
Fall 2016

Topics

  • behind urbanization, taking a critical look at important issues such as growth and decline
  • some
  • exclusion and oppression for others
  • To advance understandings of key theoretical perspectives shaping the field of urban
  • geography
  • To apply key concepts from urban geography to an understanding of contemporary urban
  • social issues in both Canadian and international contexts
  • To advance understanding of the ways in which social relations, identities and inequalities
  • shape, and are shaped by, the urban environment
  • To advance general critical analysis and written communication skills necessary in a graduate
  • academic or other work setting
  • In this course we broach a number of topics of a political, personal and sometimes contentious
  • nature. Accordingly,
  • material, the classroom discussion, and any interactions with your peers. You need not agree with all
  • of the material presented in the course, but you are expected to engage all materials with an open
  • many issues we raise, but responsibility also rests with you
  • the exception of weekends and holidays),
  • advance
  • Learning Accommodations

Readings

  • Canadian Cities in Transition: New Directions in the Twenty-First Century . 5th edition. Trudi Bunting, Pierre Filion, and Ryan Walker (eds.) Oxford University Press: Don Mills, ON)
  • Film: Steiner R. & W. Van Dyke (1939). The City,
  • Massey, D. (1994). A global sense of place, in Space, place and gender, (University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis) pp. 146-156.
  • Film: Azem, I. (2011). Ekümenopolis: City without limits,
  • Molotch, H. (1976). The city as a growth machine: Toward a political economy of place. The American Journal of Sociology, 82 (2), pp. 309‐332.
  • Theodore, N. J. Peck, & N. Brenner (2009). Neoliberal Urbanism: Models, Moments, Mutations. SAIS
  • Slater, T. (2011). Gentrification of the City, in G. Bridge and S. Watson (eds) The New Companion to the City (Oxford: Blackwell) pp. 571-585.
  • Olds, K. (1997) 'Globalizing Shanghai: the ‘global intelligence corps' and the building of Pudong', Cities 14(2): 109-123.
  • Swyndegow, E & M. Kaika (2003) ‘The Making of ‘Glocal’ Urban Modernities: Exploring the Cracks in the Mirror’, City. 7(1):5-21.
  • Shin, H. & B. Li (2013).‘Whose games? The costs of being “Olympic citizens” in Beijing’ Environment & Urbanization, 25 (2), pp. 559-576
  • Film: Silva L.F & S. Lira (2013) Rio’s Red Card,
  • Film: Brown, J. & G. Burns (2006) Radiant City, link distributed on D2L
  • Bunting, T. & P. Filion (2001). Uneven Cities: Addressing Rising Inequality in the Twenty-First
  • Hulchanski, D. (2010). The Three Cities within Toronto: Income Polarization among Toronto’s Neighbourhoods, 1970 — 2000, Centre for Urban and Community Studies, University of Toronto.
  • Film: Anaheim, A Tale of Two Cities (2012),
  • Marcuse, P. (1997). The enclave, the citadel and the ghetto: What has changed in the post-fordist, US city?, Urban Affairs Review 33 (2). pp 228-264.
  • Walks, A. & L. Bourne, (2006). Are there Ghettos in Canadian Cities? Racial Segregation, Ethnic Enclaves and Poverty Concentration in Canadian Urban Areas, Canadian Geographer, 50.26, pp. 273
  • Film: Whyte, W. H. (1989). Social LIfe of Small Urban Spaces,
  • Mitchell, D. (1995). The End of Public Space? People's Park, Definitions of the Public, and
  • Hayden, D. (1980). What Would A Non-Sexist City Be Like - Speculations On Housing, Urban Design, And Human Work, Signs, 5(3); pp. S170-S187.
  • Gurnstein, P. & S. Vilches (2010). The just city for whom? Re-conceiving active citizenship for lone mothers in Canada, Gender, Place and Culture, 17(4) 421-436.
  • Foran, C. (2013). How to design a city for women, Atlantic Cities, Sept. 16.
  • Davis, M. (1990). Fortress LA, in City of Quartz: Excavating the Future of Los Angeles (Verso Books: New York).
  • Day, K. (2006). Being feared: masculinity and race in public space, Environment and Planning A 38(3) pp. 569 – 586.
  • Smith, N. (2006). There is no Such Thing as a Natural Disaster, (Social Science Research Council, June
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